בֶּקַע
beka · beka
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1235 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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beka (בֶּקַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “beka”.
Half a shekel, about 6 grams.
How to say it
be·ka
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
In today's measures
All the measures, coins and hoursIts senses in the Bible
- A weight of about six grams, one part of two of the common silver unit.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- beka ×1
- half a shekel ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 24:22
When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring of half a shekel in weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels of gold in weight,
- Exodus 38:26
a beka per head, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary, for everyone who passed over to those counted, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.